Different screens, operating systems and even different web browsers have different color characteristics, so it’s just about impossible to get a color to look the same on every screen. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that web designers have to learn to live with.

You can get much more consistent results by calibrating your display, but this will only serve to improve your situation — the colors seen by contest holders and end users will still be different to what you see.

Some software packages provide a function to approximate what the image will look like under different operating systems. In many Adobe products, you can access this by selecting Proof Colors from the View menu — this will show you what your image will look like on Mac and PC.

Print projects should be delivered with CMYK color, which provides much more consistent results when printed. However, the colors will still look different when viewed on different screens.